{"id":237422,"date":"2026-05-19T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/starship-launch-how-to-watch-make-or-break-spacex-mission-this-week"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:03:21","slug":"starship-launch-how-to-watch-make-or-break-spacex-mission-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/starship-launch-how-to-watch-make-or-break-spacex-mission-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Starship launch: How to watch make-or-break SpaceX mission this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starship-launch-how-to-watch-make-or-break-spacex-mission-this-week.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flight test\u2019s primary goal will be to demonstrate each of these new pieces in the flight environment for the first time,\u201d a post to SpaceX\u2019s website explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this is the first flight test of a significantly redesigned vehicle, the booster will not attempt a return to the launch site for catch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A live stream of the launch will be available on SpaceX\u2019s website, as well as the company\u2019s official <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\">X page<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SpaceX\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe flight test\u2019s primary goal will be to demonstrate each of these new pieces in the flight environment for the first time,\u201d a post to SpaceX\u2019s website explained. \u201cAs this is the first flight test of a significantly redesigned vehicle, the booster will not attempt a return to the launch site for catch.\u201d A live [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}